Wu Tianyuan has checked a lot of information, and the members who came to Hong Kong to visit Minqiu Retreat this time have done their homework.

Dr. Yip Shing Yiu, the owner of the Jade Mountain House, and the two-term president of Minqiu Jingshe, has been well-known in the Hong Kong classical painting and calligraphy collection for more than 30 years, and his collection of top-quality Ming-style furniture is internationally renowned.

Hidden in the golden age of the 1980s and 1990s, his Huanghuali and Ming-style furniture is of high quality and exquisite, with a complete collection, and was even authenticated and recognized by Mr. Wang Shixiang, the father of Ming-style furniture, in Hong Kong, and presented him with four quatrain poems.

Dr. Yip's Ming-style furniture is almost entirely purchased from Jiamutang, and Ms. Ng Ka Yan is a world-renowned expert in Ming-style furniture, known as the Queen of Huanghuali, and has won unanimous praise from collectors, scholars and museum experts at home and abroad for her profound professionalism and aesthetics.

"Last time, Wu Jiaen grabbed Wang Lao's red sandalwood pen holder from Anne for 55 million, she has a deep relationship with Wang Lao, and has always regarded Wang Lao as an idol and master, and she has inherited the banner of Ming-style furniture, so that the charm of classical furniture spreads all over the world."

Wu Tianyuan still respects Wu Jiaen, Wang Shixiang is the first to let the world understand the beauty of Ming-style furniture, and Wu Jiaen is the person who really pushes Ming-style furniture abroad. Every year, Sufubi has a special session of Jiamutang, and last year's high price of more than one billion yuan was sold, which shows the attractiveness of Ming-style furniture.

"Speaking of which, my favorite is the wooden furniture, and in the future, a special exhibition hall will be set up to display the furniture of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

In the early years, Mr. Ma bought a lot of low-cost furniture and established a perfect collection system.

Early the next morning, Zhai Jianmin picked up Wu Tianyuan, went to Ye Chengyao for morning tea, came to a small restaurant, and met Ye Lao, who was already in his eighties.

"Come, eat and talk!"

Ye Lao was very thin and in good spirits, and when he saw Wu Tianyuan, he directly asked him to sit down and chat while eating.

"Lao Zhang mentioned you to me, saying that he was the most powerful young man he had ever met, and today he finally met the real person!"

Wu Tianyuan hurriedly answered Ye Lao's question politely and respectfully, he was very respectful and admired for the real collectors.

"Next year will be my 50th year of medical practice, and as a dermatologist, many people ask me why I fell in love with collecting?"

Ye Chengyao said with a smile: "My hobby of collecting is influenced by my family, my fifth uncle passed away, and I inherited the ancient jade collection and the name of attacking the jade mountain house from my uncle. With a batch of ancient jade left by my uncle, I was able to join the Minqiu Monastery, and later became the president of the group twice, and the collection was out of control. ”

Ye Lao's first impression of Wu Tianyuan was very good, and Zhang Zongxian introduced him many times, explaining: "I am not a tyrant like Xu Zhantang, just a doctor with limited funds in my hands. I can only choose the category I like, and as a result, a collection is decades, and now I have hundreds of pieces of Ming and Qing dynasty furniture in my hands, and I am not willing to use it. I can only rent a warehouse with constant temperature and humidity to keep the baby. ”

The three of them talked and laughed, Ye Lao was also good at talking, and he didn't have a fight, so he was very cultivated.

Whether it is Ma Dingxiang, Old Man Ouyang, or Zhang Zongxian, Ye Chengyao, Wu Tianyuan found that everyone is very peaceful and low-key, and the literati style is very admirable, and it is estimated that this is the biggest reason why people can get to where they are today.

"It's amazing!"

As soon as Wu Tianyuan walked into the warehouse, a refreshing fragrance came to his face, the floral fragrance of Huanghuali, that feeling was too refreshing!

The huge warehouse has hundreds of pieces of Ming-style furniture, all of which are of various types, simple and generous, which shocked Wu Tianyuan.

"In 1985, Wang Shixiang's "Appreciation of Ming-style Furniture" was released in Hong Kong Joint Publishing Co., Ltd., and a small exhibition was held at that time, so I got to know Wang Shixiang."

"At that time, there were a lot of furniture collections in Hong Kong, and the price was not too high compared to porcelain, so this was my first collection, Huang Huali saved a backrest circle chair, which I bought from Wu Jiayan in 1988, and the name of her furniture store Jia Mu Tang was also named by Wang Shixiang."

Ye Lao is very happy today, it is rare to meet the younger generation of collectors, I heard that Wu Tianyuan also has his own museum, and began to talk about his collection.

"95% of the furniture in my collection was purchased from Jiamutang in the first decade of the last century, when it was the golden age of collecting Ming-style furniture, the quality of the collection is rare, the series is complete, and the price is not high."

"Ever since I stepped into the field, I've been out of control. In the three years from 1988 to 1991, he invested almost all his time and savings to collect 68 pieces of Ming-style furniture, mainly Huanghuali. ”

"In 1987, Wu Jiaen collected a Huanghuali hanger and sold it to me three years later. In 2002, I sold this hanger through Guò New York, and it was won by Wu Jiaen, and after that, I was obsessed with it, so I bought it back from Wu Jiaen. ”

Ye Lao touched the hanger and sighed: "This is your fate with the collection, keep cutting!" ”

Wu Tianyuan looked down all the way, absorbing the energy of the Ming Dynasty furniture, and listened to the Qing Dynasty furniture tell its own history. After more than an hour of communication, Ye Lao was very shocked, and the young man in front of him was shocked by his eyesight for furniture.

"No wonder Zhang Zongxian is full of praise for you! You kid is the one I know the most about furniture! ”

Zhai Jianmin interjected: "That's because you haven't been to see his Tianyuan Museum, and now there is really no furniture, it's all porcelain calligraphy and painting." He has four sets of ten views of the West Lake in the past dynasties! There are also two sets of Fuchun Mountain residence maps, porcelain jade seals, needless to say, absolutely domineering! ”

"Well, it's a pleasure to see a young man like you, there are successors, successors!"

Ye Lao left Wu Tianyuan's phone number, saying that he must visit Tianyuan if he has time, and when he grows up for a while, he will recommend Wu Tianyuan to officially join Minqiu Jingshe and communicate more in the future.

"Old Ge, we're at the door, okay."

In the afternoon, Zhai Jianmin took Wu Tianyuan to a small building with an ordinary appearance, made a phone call, and waited for Ge Lao to open the door.

"Please come in, welcome welcome!"

Ge Lao, who was in his seventies, was polite and polite, wearing gold wire glasses, and warmly invited the two to go in, go directly to the second floor, and visit the collection of Tianmin Building.

"This ......"

Wu Tianyuan was once again shocked by hundreds of blue and white flowers of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and it was the first time he saw so many heavy weapons.

"Our ancestral home is Chengdu, my father is mainly a collection of Yuan blue and white and Ming and Qing official kiln porcelain, here 127 pieces of blue and white porcelain, including 24 pieces of blue and white in the Yuan Dynasty, 57 pieces of blue and white in the Ming Dynasty, 46 pieces of blue and white in the Qing Dynasty, is the collection of our father and son for 60 years."

Ge Lao is also rare to meet such a young junior, just now Ye Lao specially called, saying that he wanted to go to a master and let him take a good look.

Zhai Jianmin introduced: "Although he has thousands of family fortunes in the eyes of ordinary people, Ge Lao's life is extremely simple. This reminds people of the original intention of Mr. Ge Xianqiao to name it Tianmin Building. is not related to the poor, does not draw from the rich, and shows it vividly in Ge Lao. He is also the only full-time employee of Tianmin Building, from cleaning to moving, everything is done by him. ”

Zhai Jianmin's words made Wu Tianyuan awe-inspired, it seemed that the ordinary old man in front of him was full of emotion compared to the collection of tens of millions of random items in the room.

"Don't listen to Xiao Zhai's nonsense, it's your own business, come, watch and talk!"